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humiliated

humiliated is the simple past and past participle of humiliate.

Meaning of humiliate

Verb

humiliate (third-person singular simple present humiliates, present participle humiliating, simple past and past participle humiliated)

  1. (transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
    • The bully tried to humiliate the other students during lunch.
  2. (transitive) To make humble; to lower in condition or status.
  3. (transitive) To defeat overwhelmingly.

Adjective

humiliated

  1. deprived of dignity or self-respect
    Synonyms:
    degraded

Synonyms of humiliated

Words formed from humiliated

Questions about humiliated

What does humiliated mean?
Humiliated means deprived of dignity or self-respect.
What is humiliated the simple past and past participle of?
Humiliated is the simple past and past participle of humiliate.
What part of speech is humiliated?
Humiliated is an adjective.

Words near humiliated in the dictionary

  1. humify
  2. humifying
  3. humiliant
  4. humiliatable
  5. humiliate
  6. humiliated
  7. humiliates
  8. Humiliati
  9. humiliating
  10. humiliatingly
  11. humiliatings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humiliated (page history and authors); humiliate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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